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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is one of nine academic departments within the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Electrical Engineers are involved in electrical power generation, communication systems, instrumentation, circuit design and microprocessor design. Computer Engineers design hardware and computer systems and develop software. Their interests include intelligent systems, computer design and architecture, embedded systems such as cell phones and digital cameras, and other areas related to computer systems.

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In broad terms, this dissertation concerns the physics of electroelastic continua and its application to piezoelectric plate resonators, with a specific emphasis on nonlinear phenomena. The gradual reduction of device size, ...

Partial-duplicate image search is a problem of searching the query image cropped from the same original image from a large database. Kd-tree have a good performance to address this problem when data dimension is low, but ...

Centrifugal pumps are considered as one of the most common types of pumps in industry today. They are widely-used because their design is simple, they are available in wide range of capacity and head, they have high ...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is one of the public foodborne bacterial pathogens and results in severe illness such as diarrhea, urinary tract infections, respiratory illness, and pneumonia. To ensure food safety and human ...

Significant advancement of research on image classification and object detection has been achieved in the past decade. Deep convolutional neural networks have exhibited superior performance in many visual recognition tasks ...

GPUs have been widely used to parallelize and accelerate applications for its high throughput. Traditionally, a GPU function can only be launched from the CPU side. This results in the fact that GPUs are preferable for ...

Microelectrodes are widely used in detection of exocytosis events. In order to detect both the time and release location of quantal exocytosis from a single cell, four square microelectrodes located in a 20 um
square ...

Our laboratory has implemented a personnel detection system, Smart Carpet, which can detect the walking of older adults. The existing system consists of traditional individual components and chips, leading to a large system ...

In recent years, there is a dramatic increase in use of portable, wireless sensors and actuators which are widely powered by batteries. However, these batteries have drawbacks such as limited energy,
requiring replacement, ...

Oocyte cryopreservation techniques are considered very important aspects in biomedical research for oocyte and embryo cryopreservation to be used in future in In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) procedure. Oocyte cryopreservation ...

Shape and size are among the most important seed characteristics measurements. This work presents an Android-based smartphone and tablet application named MUSeed that utilizes image processing techniques for seed morphometry. ...

Object positioning is an important research which has been applied in many application areas for decades. Usually, a number of spatially separated observers capture a set of range or angle based measurements, and then ...

Localization has been a very important and fundamental research topic in GPS, radar, sonar, and especially in mobile communications and sensor networks over the past few years. Localization of a signal source is often ...

Microfluidics has a bright future in the biomedical and biology fields. A system level integration that can provide efficient communications among multi-functional units and synchronize the flow rate is the key to unlock ...

Sub-2 nm size metal nanoparticles are unique compared to their bulk counterparts in semiconductor device and sensor applications due to their size-dependent behaviors, such as Coulomb blockade effect, quantum confinement ...

In typical problems involving pattern recognition, the challenge lies in selecting a good set of features and in devising a reliable algorithm to identify the class of learned patterns that most resembles the observed ...